A racing game featuring several Nickelodeon characters.A racing game featuring several Nickelodeon characters.A racing game featuring several Nickelodeon characters.
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Not Much Content And Replayability For An Otherwise Mediocre Mario Kart Clone
Nickelodeon Kart Racers is the first game in the Nickelodeon Kart Racers series (as of this review, it has a sequel, with a third game just being officially announced). Basically, this is Nickelodeon jumping on the bandwagon of popular video game and even cartoon characters jumping on the bandwagon of having a racing game aimed at making a quick buck off of the legendary Mario Kart series, but for this first outing, this is mediocre.
Mario Kart is well known for having a lot of playable characters. This game does not, as it sadly offers only twelve playable racers from four different shows (Nick's main cash cow, SpongeBob Squarepants, gets three racers with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has the 2012 incarnations of Leo, Raph, Mikey, and Don, and rounding out the roster is Rugrats and Hey Arnold, two legacy shows, with Tommy, Angelica, Reptar, Arnold, and Helga filling up the rest of the roster). Yeah, this is all the roster you're going to get, as it excludes other classic shows and even characters from newer shows like The Loud House. Also, the game does not have voice acting, so don't play this expecting to hear the voice of Tom Kenny saying SpongeBob's usual phrases.
The main game is also devoid of content. The only modes here are Grand Prix, the main mode, Free Ride, the casual mode, and Time Attack, the mode that is a must for all racing games, for single player, with multiplayer being restricted to local. Also, there is a shop where coins collected in the game can be used to buy new items (mainly tires, paint jobs, engines, spoilers, and jet skis that are sadly tied to certain characters). The Grand Prix mode is basically your usual Mario Kart-like mode, as you choose from nine cups (six of them available from the start) from three difficulty settings, and the gameplay is a mishmash, as the karts can glide like in Mario Kart DS and with slime rivers, can turn into watercraft like in Sonic And All-Star Racing Transformed. The tracks are each made up of environments from the four shows the roster comes from, with places like Hillwood, Dimension X, and while it is the same as Mario Kart, they did a good job trying to add some variety to the races (some races could be elimination races, where after the first lap, the racer in last place after a fifteen-second time limit is eliminated from the race, and Victory Laps, where the winner goes on a one-lap collecting bonus coins and a gold box unlocking more coins and even new kart pieces), and it does have weapons, like acorn bombs, baby bottles fired like rockets, and even slime that can be sucked up, as it powers the turbo boost to make your racer go faster. This game, with its small roster, limited game modes, and gameplay mishmash from other titles, is mediocre at best, and is best avoided in favor of its sequel, which packs in a lot more characters and has online play.
Mario Kart is well known for having a lot of playable characters. This game does not, as it sadly offers only twelve playable racers from four different shows (Nick's main cash cow, SpongeBob Squarepants, gets three racers with SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has the 2012 incarnations of Leo, Raph, Mikey, and Don, and rounding out the roster is Rugrats and Hey Arnold, two legacy shows, with Tommy, Angelica, Reptar, Arnold, and Helga filling up the rest of the roster). Yeah, this is all the roster you're going to get, as it excludes other classic shows and even characters from newer shows like The Loud House. Also, the game does not have voice acting, so don't play this expecting to hear the voice of Tom Kenny saying SpongeBob's usual phrases.
The main game is also devoid of content. The only modes here are Grand Prix, the main mode, Free Ride, the casual mode, and Time Attack, the mode that is a must for all racing games, for single player, with multiplayer being restricted to local. Also, there is a shop where coins collected in the game can be used to buy new items (mainly tires, paint jobs, engines, spoilers, and jet skis that are sadly tied to certain characters). The Grand Prix mode is basically your usual Mario Kart-like mode, as you choose from nine cups (six of them available from the start) from three difficulty settings, and the gameplay is a mishmash, as the karts can glide like in Mario Kart DS and with slime rivers, can turn into watercraft like in Sonic And All-Star Racing Transformed. The tracks are each made up of environments from the four shows the roster comes from, with places like Hillwood, Dimension X, and while it is the same as Mario Kart, they did a good job trying to add some variety to the races (some races could be elimination races, where after the first lap, the racer in last place after a fifteen-second time limit is eliminated from the race, and Victory Laps, where the winner goes on a one-lap collecting bonus coins and a gold box unlocking more coins and even new kart pieces), and it does have weapons, like acorn bombs, baby bottles fired like rockets, and even slime that can be sucked up, as it powers the turbo boost to make your racer go faster. This game, with its small roster, limited game modes, and gameplay mishmash from other titles, is mediocre at best, and is best avoided in favor of its sequel, which packs in a lot more characters and has online play.
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- jeremycrimsonfox
- Jul 15, 2022
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